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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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sathiya psql escribió:

> I have 1 GB RAM with Pentium Celeron.
> 50 lakh records and postgres performance is not good....
> 
> It takes 30 sec for simple queries....

Shows us the explain analyze.  There is no problem with a large number
of records, as long as you're not expecting to process all of them all
the time.

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